WRAL News Poll: N.C. voters have yet to form opinion on U.S. Senate candidates

Raleigh, N.C. — A month before the primaries, North Carolina voters have yet to form an opinion on the candidates for U.S. Senate, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WRAL News.

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Between March 26 and 28, surveyors asked 535 registered voters in North Carolina about the candidates for the Senate and found that only incumbent Republican Richard Burr was well-known enough that a clear majority of voters have an opinion about him.

Burr was viewed favorably by 32 percent of registered voters surveyed. Twenty-four percent had an unfavorable opinion of Burr. About 17 percent were neutral and 28 percent said they had no opinion.

The margin of error for the question was plus or minus 3.8 percent.

Percentage of neutral and no opinion responses for each candidate:

Candidate	Neutral	No opinion
Larry Linney (R)	22	68
Brad Jones (R)	20	65
Eddie Burk (R)	21	64
Richard Burr (R)	17	28
Marcus Williams (D)	19	61
Ann Worthy (D)	20	62
Elaine Marshall (D)	20	49
Ken Lewis (D)	22	56
Susan Harris (D)	23	60
Cal Cunningham (D)	26	58
Michael Beitler (L)	20	65

Survey USA asked 600 people – voters and those not registered – to identify the most important issue facing the country. By a wide margin, those surveyed named the economy. The next important issue for voters was health care.

About 41 percent felt that Congress has gone too far with recently passed health care reform legislation. Twenty-two percent said they would like the health care system left alone and 20 percent said they supported the changes that are being made.

The margin of error on the issue questions varied between plus or minus 3.8 percent and plus or minus 4 percent.

WRAL News Poll: Questions, answers and methodology

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Hey WRAL, your bias is showing again. Why didn't you show that the same poll shows that Elaine Marshall only has a 14% favorability rating and the rest of the dems running in the primary have even lower ratings? Why single out Burr's favorability rating?

lapj
March 31, 2010 5:09 p.m.

"Do you mean the ones that are whining about only making(a projected) $2,000,000,000 instead of $3,000,000,000? I, case you don't understand that's $2 Billion instead of $3 Billion. Yeah they are hurting sooo bad!" ---SME2

And with that we have another fine example of a person that obviously doesnt understand economics or business.

Heres a clue.... what do you think they do with that money they make???? Perhaps hire more people? Do research into new products so they can hire new people? What do you think the chances of hiring more people if the profit (I trust you know the difference between income and profit, right?) is lower versus higher?

NCPictures
March 31, 2010 4:00 p.m.

I have an opinion....... if you are an incumbent.... you are gone.

NCPictures
March 31, 2010 3:56 p.m.

I wish Kay Hagen were running again. She sold us out to socialized medicine, and she'll be right there to help Obama with his other government take over plans.

GlobalHoax
March 31, 2010 12:45 p.m.

Now let's see how many big corporations will layoff or close do to the unsustainable taxes that will be imposed on them. And...even if they don't close I predict NO RAISES, NO NEW HIRES...darn corporations. MitziGaynor

Do you mean the ones that are whining about only making(a projected) $2,000,000,000 instead of $3,000,000,000? I, case you don't understand that's $2 Billion instead of $3 Billion. Yeah they are hurting sooo bad!